verbe

Learned borrowing from Latin verbum. Doublet of verve.

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁb/

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• Homophone: verbes

verbe m (plural verbes)

1. speech
2. tone of voice
3. way of speaking
4. (grammar) verb

• “verbe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• brève

Borrowed from Old French verbe, from Latin verbum, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om. Doublet of word.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛrb(ə)/

verbe (plural verbes)

1. (grammar) verb

• English: verb

• “verbe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-3.

From Latin verbum.

verbe m or f

1. word
2. phrasing; way of expressing something

• → English: verb
• French: verbe
• Norman: vèrbe

verbe n pl

1. plural of verb